The very important reason people have started peeing in the shower

When you're already in the shower, the toilet is just too far away.

Not to worry, urinating in the shower might just be a good thing... well, for the environment at least.

Consider this:

Western toilets use six litres of water per flush, and the average adult passes urine seven times (although it can be as much as 10 times) in 24 hours.

That's 42 litres of water flushed a day and in a year that adds up to 15,330 litres.

There are approximately 64.1 million people living in the UK, and assuming they have the same urination patterns, that means approximately 980 billion litres of water is used each year by people flushing the loo.

That's a lot of wasted water.

However, swapping the shower for the toilet at least once a day in this case means that you'd still be saving a whopping 140 billion litres of water a year.

This is great for the environment, but there remains the elephant in the room:

Is it hygienic though?

Well, as Chris Dobson, part of the "Go With the Flow" campaign at the University of East Anglia, told the BBC:

As long as the water is flowing there is no hygiene risk as urine is sterile

Still, if you share a bathroom with another human being, you might want to have a chat about that morning shower relief.

H/T IflScience

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